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- IRIS
- (1) The name of SGI's first graphics terminals and workstations. The name was later used for SGI's high-availability software for its servers IRIS FailSafe.
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ZDNet Resources
- Catalogue Iris (zip)
- Catalogue Iris offers you the capacity to perform a simple search for documents available at the BAnQ, the Quebec National Library. Catalogue Iris is still only available in French, but an English version will be coming soon. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Version, Iris, FGD
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- IRIS (zip)
- IRIS offers numerous and powerful functions of image processing in the field of the digital astronomical images. Iris is particularly optimized to exploit the images that come from CCD cameras. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Image, Iris
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- FBI building massive biometric database
- In The Simpsons movie, Marge, Bart and Lisa's conversations are tracked by the NSA. It's not that they've been targeted as specific threats to the EPA's plans to wipe Springfield off the map but because the NSA listens to every American's conversation. That scenario -- which...
- Tags: Database, FBI, Fingerprint, Pentagon, Iris, Federal Government, Storage, Databases, Government, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- Phase-Based Iris Identification (zip)
- A major approach for iris recognition today is to generate feature vectors corresponding to individual iris images and to perform iris matching based on some distance metrics. One of the difficult problems in feature-based iris recognition is that the matching performance is significantly influenced by many parameters in feature extraction...
- Tags: Iris, Iris Recognition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Engineering, Corporate Law, Performance Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- Internet: The next generation (or 'Routers in Space')
- Back in the 1960s, it was a US Defense Department agency, DARPA, that created the network that has become the Internet. Now, the DOD has approved and funded a new project, Iris, that might wind up jump-starting a new chapter in Internet history - the wired cosmos. The...
- Tags: Defense, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Facial recognition technology shows improvement
- The National Institute of Standards says that facial recognition technology can be better than human identification with accuracy rates approaching 99 percent. Iris scanning, however, could improve. The report, dubbed the Face Recognition Vendor Test FRVT 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation ICE 2006, evaluates...
- Tags: Security, Science, Innovation, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Photos: Checking your digits, irises at the airport
- A trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers.
- Tags: London, biometric fingerprint, iris
- Image galleries 2006-12-06
- Half-Life 2 Iris mod (exe)
- This mod lets you play as the girl Iris as both a child and an adult concurrently to progress the story.
- Tags: Half-Life 2, Iris
- Software downloads 2006-11-10
- Foolproof iris recognition technology?
- Foolproof iris recognition technology?Iris can changeIrises can change over time. I saw one individual’s eye where a “gold” colored section appeared in their basically “blue” eyes. I’ve also seen eyes migrate between green and blue and back over time as well.Iris can changeIrises can change over time....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, iris
- Discussion threads 2005-11-26
- Iris scanning to begin at German airport
- Iris scanning to begin at German airportPatriot Actwonder why people aren't so up in arms about this... i know if any American airport started doing the same thing people would be screaming for John Ashcroft's head.More governmental intrusionThe sheep will welcome this. It will enforce their false sense of security....
- Tags: Government, Homeland security, iris, Transportation Security Administration
- Discussion threads 2004-02-13
Additional Resources
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- akkOmi (exe)
- akkOmi, quickly and efficiently creates a standardized, graphical report of the client's financial statements that you prepare in Iris Accounts Production. It doesn't replace the financial statements, as they're perfect, it compliments them and are just for your client's benefit. Many accounts production software products can generate many reports that...
- Tags: Financial, Report, Financial Statement, Industrial CodeBox, akkOmi, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Samsung SP-A800B
- Samsung's flagship one-chip DLP-based home theater projector, the SP-A800B, takes accuracy of signal reproduction to a new level. My previous reference projector, the Samsung SP-H710AE, was designed by Joe Kane, and that well-known video guru and author of Digital Video Essentials also designed the SP-A800B. While the 710E is spectacularly...
- Tags: Projectors, Home entertainment, TV & Home Theater, picture menu, Movie mode, Samsung SP-A800B, projector, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-06-10
- Mac market share keeps climbing
- According to monthly statistics tracked by Net Applications, the market share for the Mac platform keeps inching upwards. The same can be said for the Webkit browser used in Safari and the iPhone. The calendar rolled over on the weekend, so the final May tally for the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Mac Market Share, Webkit, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Review: CardIris 3.0 scanning software
- I've been using the tiny IRIS Business Card Reader II for about two years and love it. A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, recently shared his experience with CardIris scanning software: Having purchased several scanners in the last year to make my life more paperless I finally decided to take the...
- Tags: Software, Card, Business Card, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...
- Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Mitsubishi HC6000
- Mitsubishi's HC6000 replaces last year's model, the HC5000, as the company's entry-level 1080p home theater projector. The main improvement is higher contrast ratio due mainly to improved black level performance. It also delivers on its 1080p resolution promise for the most part, with video processing courtesy of Silicon Optix and...
- Tags: Projectors, menu system, Auto Iris feature, color temperature, Mitsubishi HC6000, projector, Mitsubishi Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-15
- Advanced Batch Converter (exe)
- Advanced Batch Converter does exactly what its title suggests, allowing you to easily convert multiple graphics files at the click of a button. You also can view, print, capture, acquire, and edit images (resize, rotate, flip, mirror, and crop, and use filters, morphing effects, watermarks, and color enhancements). The program...
- Tags: GIF, JPEG, Gold-Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- Windows Mobile to come to Mobile Internet Devices
- Microsoft has brought on a new hire -- a former founding member of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates -- to help the Redmond software company port the Windows Mobile operating system to new form factors. Len Kawell, whose title is "Distinguished Engineer in the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Corp., Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Kawell, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
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